Make a unique filesystem path, without creating the file

[Paul Rubin]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
> How much future are you expecting?

This is old but its methodology still seems ok:

  http://saluc.engr.uconn.edu/refs/keymgr/blaze95minimalkeylength.pdf

I also like this:

  http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.10.05/slides-djb-20151005-a4.pdf

Quote (slide 37): 

  The crypto users' fantasy is boring crypto: crypto that simply works,
  solidly resists attacks, never needs any upgrades.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10345965